A Taste for Wine: Got Twinkies? Pair them with sweet wines

5:38 AM,
Aug. 3, 2013

Written by

Robert Scheer
The Indianapolis Star

Last fall, when Hostess went out of the Twinkie-making business, I roamed around town looking for a box. I didn't find any, but I sure wasn't one of those fools bidding for them on eBay. Oddly, I don't like Twinkies much, but it was a blast stopping into every grocery store I came upon over a couple days.

Now that they're back on shelves, the first thing I thought of: Twinkie and wine pairing!

I'm not big on wine and food pairings. It gets too snooty for me, worrying that a riesling might have been better with my sushi than the sauvignon blanc I ordered. It takes my attention away from the good time I'm ...